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The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of exercising pro-gram utilizing proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation integration pat-tern (PIP), which is effective in improvement of the physical function, on the fall efficacy and gait ability of the elders who experienced injuries from falls. Also, this study aims to investigate he applicability of exercise program as methods for fall reoccurrence prevention and physical functions enhancement. The subjects of the study were 30 elders in the local community with experience of injuries from falls. The period of the study was 4 weeks with 12 exercise sessions. The subjects were ran-domly allocated to 2 groups where 15 elders were allocated to PIP and the rest 15 elders were allocated to general exercise (GE) group. Fall ef-ficacy scale (FES) and GAITRite were used for the measurements in this study. Paired t-test was used to analyze the differences within the group while independent t-test was used to analyze the difference be-tween two groups. In the comparison of measurements before and af-ter exercise program, FES, velocity, cadence, and stride length were shown to be significantly increased in both PIP group and GE group. Also, in the comparison between two groups after the exercise pro-gram, the measurements of FES, cadence, stride length, and step length in PIP group were shown to be significantly increased compared to the GE group. Therefore, the PNF combined pattern is judged to be applica-ble to as methods for fall reoccurrence prevention and physical func-tions enhancement of the elders with experience of being fallen.

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Abstract
 INTRODUCTION
 MATERIALS AND METHODS
  Study subjects
  Measurement of confidence against injuries from falls
  Measurement of spatial and temporal gait ability
  PNF integration pattern exercise program
  Data analysis
 RESULTS
  General characteristics
  Changes in confidence against injuries from falls
  Changes in temporal gait factors
  Changes in spatial gait factors
 DISCUSSION
 CONFLICT OF INTEREST
 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
 REFERENCES

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저자

• Hyun-seung Song [ Graduate School of Physical Therapy, Daejeon University, Daejeon, Korea ]
• Seong-doo Park [ Graduate School of Physical Therapy, Daejeon University, Daejeon, Korea ]
• Jin-young Kim [ Department of Occupational Therapy, Howon University, Gunsan, Korea ] Corresponding author

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• 간행물명

  JER [Journal of Exercise Rehabilitation]

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  격월간

• pISSN

  2288-176X

• eISSN

  2288-1778

• 수록기간

  2013~2026

• 등재여부

  SCOPUS,KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 517 DDC 613